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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

Susan Sontag

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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Acceptance Philosophy Understand World
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Different People Safe
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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Love Person Ruin Willing
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
My library is an archive of longings.
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Book Inspirational One Liner Reading
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Extinction Problem World
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Lust Photography Satisfaction
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait

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